I have a crawlspace under half my house, and made the mistake of watching a YouTube video about how to do "underpinning". Now I want to dig it out down to 10ft to use for some desperately needed storage space, maybe some gym space. Our local building office is amazingly supportive of DIYers, and I appreciate them double checking my work.
The underground world of hobby tunneling
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#32this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon.
but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down. there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's crust --
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#33this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon. but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down . there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's cru…
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#34I wish I could do this but living in central North Carolina it would probably fill up with water in days.
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#35this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon. but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down . there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's cru…
Futurama's (old) New York. But that's the domain of the sewer mutants. They flush their unwanted reptilian pets to the sub-sewer, where they become monsters.
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#36> Ritchie isn’t digging with any destination in mind; he digs for the pure joy and meditation that comes with it. > “I just feel like a kid again,” Ritchie said. “It really puts me in the moment and relieves stress.” In a world saturated with "productivity porn" and side hustles, I just absolutely love that.
I’m nearing 40 and when I’m at any beach with sand you better believe I’m gonna see how deep I can dig a hole. Brings back a lot of that childhood joy of being absolutely certain I was almost about to dig through the earth’s crust once it started to get hard.
Only about 19.999 miles short if we’re talking about averages.
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#37The missing soundtrack to this article https://youtu.be/34CZjsEI1yU?si=HWSwnEf8o6_ehuo7
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#38this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon. but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down . there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's cru…
There is even precedent: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkey...
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#39this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon. but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down . there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's cru…
Beware that those down there, don't turn into Morlocks.
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#40> Ritchie isn’t digging with any destination in mind; he digs for the pure joy and meditation that comes with it. > “I just feel like a kid again,” Ritchie said. “It really puts me in the moment and relieves stress.” In a world saturated with "productivity porn" and side hustles, I just absolutely love that.
I’m nearing 40 and when I’m at any beach with sand you better believe I’m gonna see how deep I can dig a hole. Brings back a lot of that childhood joy of being absolutely certain I was almost about to dig through the earth’s crust once it started to get hard. Only about 19.999 miles short if we’re talking about averages.
Building a dam on a stream can be like this too.